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In 'Rousseau and Romanticism' by Irving Babbitt, the author delves into the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on the Romantic movement. Babbitt's scholarly analysis dissects Rousseau's philosophy a……続きを見る

In 'Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France' by Edmund Gosse, the author delves into the lives and works of three influential French philosophers - Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, and Vauvenarg……続きを見る

De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to ……続きを見る

This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the repres……続きを見る

Gotthold Ephraim Lessings 'Oden' ist eine Sammlung von Gedichten, die sich durch ihre Tiefe und Vielschichtigkeit auszeichnen. Lessing, einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Dichter der Aufklärung, präs……続きを見る

Is the prose poem revolutionary and subversive, or marginal and lyrical? What makes a piece of prose a prose poem? Is its identity vague or precisely defined? Can every poem written in prose be cons……続きを見る

This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in……続きを見る

This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. Th……続きを見る

L'olivonese è il dialetto lombardo alpino parlato nell'ultimo comune della valle di Blenio (canton Ticino, Svizzera). Si tratta di una varietà conservativa che, finora, non era mai stata descritta i……続きを見る

Architecture and the Novel under the Italian Fascist Regime discusses the relationship between the novel and architecture during the Fascist period in Italy (1922-1943). By looking at two profoundly……続きを見る

This open access collection offers a detailed mapping of recent Nordic literature and its different genres (fiction, poetry, and children’s literature) through the perspective of spatiality. Concent……続きを見る

La presente monografia si propone di ripercorrere, con approcci metodologici diversi, la formazione e lo sviluppo della percezione di un'identità linguistica, letteraria e culturale nel territorio d……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The best of Charles Dickens" contains 8 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of contents : The……続きを見る

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Jerome, Jerome K.: "Three Men in a Boat" Joyce, James: "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"……続きを見る

( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard……続きを見る

The beginning of the 20th century saw literary scholars from Russia positing a new definition for the nature of literature. Within the framework of Russian Formalism, the term ‘literariness’ was coi……続きを見る

This eBook edition of "THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was a member of the poli……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Harry Potter and……続きを見る

The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear throu……続きを見る

Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich Christian Krachts Ästhetik unter zwei Hauptaspekten: Zum einen hinsichtlich bisweilen irritierend verdrehter Aktualisierungen jener Selbstbezüglichkeit und Vor……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Literaturkritiken: Franz Kafka, die Tragödie eines Lebens + Thomas Mann, der Zauberberg + Giacomo Casanova + Ernest Hemingway + Rousseau + Cervantes zu Ehren + Kleist als E……続きを見る

Through the consideration of canonical authors such as Blake, Scott, and Wordsworth and of lesser-studied works such as radical press writings and popular drama, this study explores the imaginative ……続きを見る

Unlock the more straightforward side of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Harry Potter and……続きを見る

Nos quatro ensaios que compõem esta defesa do fervor, Adam Zagajewski desenraíza a criação literária e reafirma a literatura como um conjunto de peças moventes que orbitam os sujeitos, a dúvida, as ……続きを見る

Edited with an introduction by an internationally recognized scholar, this nine-volume set represents the most exhaustive collection of essential critical writings in the field, from studies of the ……続きを見る

A quirky, cosmopolitan novel about life and literature by the prize-winning Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, author of Bartleby & Co. The narrator of Montano’s Malady is a writer named Jose who is……続きを見る

One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating da……続きを見る

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the most famous and controversial figure in the history of political thought and one of the iconic names of the Renaissance. The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli……続きを見る

Both the actualities and the metaphorical possibilities of illness and medicine abound in literature: from the presence of tuberculosis in Franz Kafka's fiction or childbed fever in Mary Shelley's F……続きを見る

This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these autho……続きを見る